Judging from all the alarm these days, maybe artificial intelligence poses a huge danger threat to humanity.

Take former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. On Wednesday, he warned that artificial intelligence could pose existential risks, adding that governments will need to step in to ensure technology is not “misused by evil people.”

AI is supposed to make all of our lives easier. But ChatGPT, which emerged last year and is now being employed in endless ways, has prompted concern that it may be too powerful and eventually learn to think by itself, making it an existential risk.

“Existential risk is defined as many, many, many, many people harmed or killed,” Schmidt said at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London, CNBC reported.

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“There are scenarios not today, but reasonably soon, where these systems will be able to find zero-day exploits in cyber issues, or discover new kinds of biology. Now, this is fiction today, but its reasoning is likely to be true. And when that happens, we want to be ready to know how to make sure these things are not misused by evil people,” he said.

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